Mitosis/S phase

In article <svgD378pD.95G at netcom.com>, Sam Gorstein <svg at netcom.com> wrote:
>: Along the same line, while I believe that the lower-case "m" in
>: mRNA means "messenger" and the lower-case "r" in rBST means
>: "recombinant", I am at a loss to figure out what the "c" in
>: cDNA means.
>>It stands for Complimentary. The DNA is complementary to mRNA, and thus
>has had its introns removed in RNA Processing.
>>-SG-
Actually, it stands for "copy". It is DNA that is copied from mRNA by
an enzyme called reverse transcriptase.
Carlisle